Suat Kınıklıoğlu

Executive Director, Center for Strategic Communication

Turkey

Executive Director of the Center for Strategic Communication (STRATIM) in Ankara and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. Suat Kınıklıoğlu is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He served as Member of Parliament from 2007 to 2011, was AK Party Deputy Chairman of External Affairs and member of the AK Party Central Executive Committee. He was founding director of the German Marshall Fund of the US office in Turkey and the Ankara Center for Turkish Policy Studies. Kınıklıoğlu earned his B.A. in Political Science from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and his M.A. in International Relations from Bilkent University, Ankara.